This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Earth's atmosphere is never still. Somewhere, at any given moment a storm is ripping across the surface of our planet. Maybe it will pass through in the middle of the night, waking only the dog, or maybe it will close the airport, flood the subway, and-or usher in a year of famine--perhaps a civil war. Our ability to track weather may (sometimes) give us some advance warning, but the weather itself is inevitable. It is the state of the atmosphere and we all experience it. Weather prediction invo...